Discipline Quote by David G. Benner

“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”

— Simone Weil

“Paying attention is being open and awake - ready to be seized by whatever is present to us in the present moment. This is…

— David G. Benner

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all…

— Patricia Hampl

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

— Simone Weil

Prayer is not what you do to get God's attention because you are already God's attenttion

— Utia

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I…

— Adam Savage

“We do not pray so that we can get God's attention. We pray so that God will get our attention.”

— David G. Benner

There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must…

— Francois Fenelon

“Prayer is easily ruined when we make it a project - part of a spiritual self-improvement plan. Rather than pushing yourself forward by resolve,…

— David G. Benner

One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a…

— Henri Nouwen

the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside…

— Anonymous

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

— W. H. Auden